Legacy Complex - these remain in place in many enterprises, and have decent brand reputation. However, these older vendors have tended to prove less innovative, and can bring risky technical debt.

Mid-Range - have adopted some additional services into their offerings, but do not offer the breadth of services or integration flexibility that the Complex or Legacy Complex vendors. At the same time, with the exception of Adobe they will offer lower costs structures when deployed against the specific use cases that they were built to serve.

Simpler - these vendors are mostly focused on providing basic asset repository services. There are lots of similarities among them, but they are trying to differentiate themselves by focusing on lower cost, simpler user experiences, and specialized industry solutions.

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